Dale / Green / Fellows Child Protection Assessment Following Serious Injuries to Infants

Fine Judgments
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-470-02831-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Child Protection & Policy Series

"This book is especially welcome because of the scholarship andthoughtfulness evident throughout."
--Dr Peter Reder, Child Psychiatrist, London
How do child protection professionals and courts make judgmentson whether serious injuries to infants are due to abuse? Ifinjuries are considered to be the result of abuse, in whatcircumstances can it be considered safe for the infant to returnhome?
Child Protection Assessment Following Serious Injuries toInfants is concerned with helping child protection professionalsand courts make the right decisions and avoid errors that can havedisastrous consequences for children and families.
Drawing upon the extensive clinical and research experience ofthe authors, this authoritative text:
* Reviews research on the causes of child abuse and problems indiagnosing abuse.
* Examines the views of parents who consider that they have beenwrongly accused of child abuse.
* Draws specific attention to the need to assess potential forchange in families and considers in detail how this can beachieved.
* Highlights skills issues that are necessary for undertakingappropriate assessments.
* Identifies key factors that are indicative of reunification insome cases, and factors that contraindicate reunification inothers.
With its evidence-based approach, this book will be a valuableresource for all child protection professionals. It will also be ofuse to health professionals, legal professionals, researchers,lecturers and students of social work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dale, Peter

Green, Richard

Fellows, Ron

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Authors.
Foreword.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction.
2. Child Abuse and Child Protection Errors.
3. Child Abuse Research .
4. Child Protection Research.
5. The NSPCC Serious Injury-Discrepant ExplanationsResearch.
6. Family Perceptions of Child Protection Interventions.
7. Explanations for Injuries and the Thorny Issue of'Denial'.
8. Child Protection Assessment Contexts.
9. Potential for Change.
10. Fine Judgments.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Peter Dale trained originally as psychiatrist social worker, and subsequently as a counselor/psychotherapist. His PhD research was a qualitative study focused on the perceptions of clients and therapists of the therapeutic process for adults who were abused as children (Dale 1999). Peter Dale worked in child and family psychiatrist services before joining the NSPCC in 1980, where he was a practitioner, manager and Senior Research Officer until 2002. An establishment and author. Dr. Dale now acts as an independent social worker expert witness throughout the UK in care proceedings - specializing in cases where there are serious suspicious injuries to infants.Contact details: [e-mail] Green trained as a social worker and family therapist. He has held a number of posts in both local authorities and the NSPCC, including practitioner, manager and evaluation officer. He is currently employed as Senior Consultant within the NSPCC, working with a range of statutory and voluntary agencies to improve the safeguarding of children.Contact details: rgreen@nspcc,org.ukRon Fellows trained originally as a social worked, and subsequently as a family/brief therapist. He worked in mental health and children and family services for various London boroughs. Since joining the NSPCC, he has held posts as a practitioner and manager.Contact details: [e-mail]